EDICT AGAINST CHORUS GIRLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8213, 17 August 1906, Page 5

EDICT AGAINST CHORUS GIRLS.

Reoeived August 16, 10.12 a.m. MELBOURNE, August 16 g Mr J. C. Williamson's manager states that chorus girls in future will be prohibited from marrying till their contracts end. During the last two years Mr Williamson has lost thirty of his best girls through marriage, the opera companies having almost become matrimonial agencies. In future contracts with chorus girls will be for one year and not for a season only.

BISHOPRIC OF BENDIGO

Reoeived August 16, 10.12 a.m. MELBOURNE, August 16. The Right Rev. -Arthur Wellesley Pain, Bishop of Gippsland, has been appointed to succeed the late Right Rev. Henry Langley as Bishop of Bendigo. The soleotion still requires final sanction.

ROBBERY AT KALGOOBUf

Received August 16, 10.1,2 p.m. PERTH, August 16. At Kalgoorlie thtee masked men in the middle of the night entered the battery-house at the Golden Range mine and bound the watchman, a man named Jaoobsen. While two of the men were removing amalgam a third guarded the watchman, who under the "pretence of being cold removed to near the boilers. He managed, to get his hand free and olew the whistle. The robbers decamped with £ls worth of booty.

A VALUABLE PEARL,

Reoeived August 16, 10.14 p.m. PERTH, August 16. Captain Talboye discovered a pearl, valued at £1,600, and "while he was examining it it fell into nine fathoms of water. After a long search the diver recovered the gem.

RESCUING THE STEAMER GLAUCUS.

Received August 16, 9.50 p.m. SYDNEY, August 16. On behalf of the Shipwreck Relief Society, Captain Watt, of the steamer Kanowna, was presented with a silver tea and coffee service, in recognition of his rescuing the steamer Glauous. Holdridge, the second officer, was presented with a gold medal, and the five men who formed the orew of Holdridge's boat were presented with a silver medal and £5 each.

TICKS IN CATTLE.

Reoeived August 16, 9.50 p.m. SYDNEY, August 16. Muoh alarm has been caused in the northern districts owing to the reoent discovery of ticks in cattle in the vloinitj of the Tweed River. Out of a herd of 118 oatMe 26 were found to have tiobß. The Government are taking elaborate precautions to prevent the tioks from spreading by stringently quarantining and dipping the cattle.